How MUCH do you SQUAT?

[RottenWillow]

295 for 3 sets of 8. Short term goal of 315...was hoping to be there by now. That's on a smith machine at a seated level...legs spread shoulder width.

Leg press - 5oolbs for 3 sets of 8.

Hey we need to train legs together. My PR is 345, free weight, down to a 10" box, which I guess is about 2 inches below parallel.

 

[boscoe wilson]

Hey we need to train legs together. My PR is 345, free weight, down to a 10" box, which I guess is about 2 inches below parallel.

Believe me, I wish there was a girl in my gym I could talk to or even compare with! Unfortunately I work out in a tennis club (less than a mile from my house is why) and all the women look at me like I'm crazy..then again I think I'm the only girl who works out w/out makeup in my gym.
Next week I promised my husband that I would try free squats to the floor. I have no clue what to drop the weight to because I've never gone to the floor...gonna be interesting.

 

[wend]

I'd start light and work up...I understand that the weights on the Smith machine are usually much higher than what one can manage with free weights, though I'm sure you'll still be able to squat pretty heavy after what you've been doing.

I go below parallel, but with no box...I like to sink all the way down into the whole, then spring back up. Trying to stop at parallel hurts my knees.

(Dang, Anya, you're a monster! How long have you been squatting?)

 

[Lililston]

I think Anya should show some pics! I want to see how your legs look like, girl!

 

[Frogr]

175 is my max from January. Though I think it has gone up cuz my last set is now 165 x 6. I barely squeak out the last two reps.

 

[Mandinka2]

I'd start light and work up...I understand that the weights on the Smith machine are usually much higher than what one can manage with free weights, though I'm sure you'll still be able to squat pretty heavy after what you've been doing.

I go below parallel, but with no box...I like to sink all the way down into the whole, then spring back up. Trying to stop at parallel hurts my knees.

(Dang, Anya, you're a monster! How long have you been squatting?)

Depends how deep you go on the smith , squatting butt to the floor on the smith is incredibly difficult and dangerous , free squatting is much better and safer IMHO.

 

[Puddles]

I've never tried to go for a pb, but on leg day I usually start with squats, 4 12 rep sets at 135 just below parrallel. I started doing squats about 6 months ago and love them. It's time I add a little more weight.

I took a break from the gym for a few months but I was doing 10 plates for 3 12 rep sets on the leg press. Now I'm easing back into it with 6 plates for the last couple of weeks (I feel like such a whimp), this week I'm ready to go back to 8 though.

 

[boscoe wilson]

I plan to be at 315 within 2 weeks. My weekly goal is always to add 5 or more lbs to every power move.

 

[jenscats5]

Depends how deep you go on the smith , squatting butt to the floor on the smith is incredibly difficult and dangerous , free squatting is much better and safer IMHO.

It'd be nice if my gym had a squat rack.......but we don't & no room to add one.....the free weight area is tiny.....I take up a lot of space when I do my deadlifts......at my gym the only place to do squats is on the smith machine, otherwise you'd just have to use the machines

 

[wilson6]

I wouldn't advise squatting to the floor on a smith machine. Very hard on the lower back.

Use a bar if at all possible if you want to squat below parallel.

Switching from the smith to the bar will take some getting used to. Start with the bar and work your way up. Some of the girls I used to train on the smith could get 5 - 8 reps with up to 400 lbs, parallel. They had to cut that at least in half with a free bar, at least to start.

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